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07/21/08, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Starting over! PICS!
We have finally moved to our 5 acres in central NC. We are working hard to improve the soil and get our chickens going. Here are some pictures of our place. This is the 5th place we've lived. It is easier to start over this time, but we are older so it is taking LONGER.
We planted the first week of June, but here is the first thing we hope to pick.
we just planted six week peas to help improve the soil when we til them under
View of our rain catchment system for the chickens
Khaki Campbells, Buff Orpingtons, Gold Laced Wyandottes and guineas
New coop with the nest boxes on the outside. We're still working as you can see.
View up the hill from the house at the upper pasture area.
The bees
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07/21/08, 02:57 PM
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Original recipe!
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Location: NC foothills
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Good to see you getting settled! Nice field.. and birds and water system.. now, If it will just rain!
Congrats an your new place (again!)
We have moved 3 times in 5 years so I know what you mean...
and we are contemplating another move now.. aaarrrggghhhh
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07/21/08, 03:42 PM
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Great pictures...Congratulations! Looks like a really nice place  We also have moved a lot...I find it's a good way to keep clutter down because it forces you to go through everything.
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07/21/08, 04:55 PM
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Looks like you've made a great start! nice water system....we hope to get one put in one of these days.
I never get tired of looking at other people's farms/homesteads/gardens/plots of land  It's kind of renewing somehow. like....knowing there are still people out there who WANT to work their own land and it's not all about greed and clothes and cars and how-much-stuff-can-you-own. Know what I mean?
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07/21/08, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Wisconsin Ann
I never get tired of looking at other people's farms/homesteads/gardens/plots of land It's kind of renewing somehow. like....knowing there are still people out there who WANT to work their own land and it's not all about greed and clothes and cars and how-much-stuff-can-you-own. Know what I mean? |
i so TOTALLY agree!!!!! and yup, that is a beautiful place!
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07/21/08, 05:59 PM
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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing-much luck w/it all.
Patty
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07/21/08, 08:06 PM
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Love the pics, beautiful place. GL!
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07/21/08, 08:44 PM
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Oh how exciting. Have you posted pics of your house yet elsewhere?
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07/21/08, 09:19 PM
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Howdy Ho neighbor! (we are near Chapel Hill, NC)
Looks like you're getting a lot accomplished. Looking forward to seeing more great pictures!....
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07/21/08, 09:28 PM
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Almst livin the good life
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Wow, great pics! I'm curious, is your water system to your poultry gravity from your rainwater storage tank? We're in the planning stage of our new placeour coop should be big enough to catch enough water for our birds. Do you have a pump? We currently use auto waterer but it needs pressure to work properly.
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07/21/08, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Southwest Missouri
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Beautiful place, and you guys have done so much work already! Good for you. Watch out for those zucchini, though. They may look innocent, but they're actually plotting a takeover of your garden and kitchen.
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07/21/08, 10:10 PM
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Beautiful pictures! Love those chicks and ducks Hope your bees do well.
I like the water cachment system. I got one of those 250 gallon ones hooked up to the gutters at the house, so have to carry it to the chickens.
How does yours work?
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07/22/08, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NC
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Originally Posted by kabri
Wow, great pics! I'm curious, is your water system to your poultry gravity from your rainwater storage tank? We're in the planning stage of our new placeour coop should be big enough to catch enough water for our birds. Do you have a pump? We currently use auto waterer but it needs pressure to work properly.
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Ours is only a gravity system with no pump. Ours is the Little Fount from here. http://www.strombergschickens.com/pr...FQqdnAodqW_6rg
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07/22/08, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Judy in IN
Beautiful pictures! Love those chicks and ducks Hope your bees do well.
I like the water cachment system. I got one of those 250 gallon ones hooked up to the gutters at the house, so have to carry it to the chickens.
How does yours work?
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The little founts are such a simple method. We hook PVC up to the tank and run it to the coop. DH builds boxes around the exposed pipe and insulates them extremely well for the winter months. We bury the pipe by piling 2 feet of dirt over the pipe that runs along the ground. I'm sure you know that it takes very little rain to fill the tank in this fashion. The birds have water all the time this way. We did run out of water last year during the drought when we were raising 150 meat birds on the system. I had forgotten how hard it was to carry water to all those birds!
The only weakness are the little valves on the founts themselves. We keep extras here and have to replace those at least once a season. In the winter we have one of the round water heaters that we place under the fount. So far, it has kept it warm enough to not freeze in the coop, but we had our greenhouse attached to the coop at the last house. For the outside founts, DH took a plastic bucket that he insulated and cut a hole out for the fount and pipe. We have a heater under the fount and the bucket on top at night. It keeps it nice and toasty and I remove the bucket in the morning when I let the birds out of the coop.
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07/22/08, 10:34 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NC
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Oh how exciting. Have you posted pics of your house yet elsewhere?
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The house!!! YIKES!! I guess it shows what is really important to us now. No, house picture. I'm pitiful! Picture is below. My parents are adding on to the house to live with us. We still have to build the garage and my canning storage room. (Yes, we are building a 12 x 12 pantry or room off the kitchen in addition to the one that is already there. I'm tired of digging under the bed for canned goods.)
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07/22/08, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: IA
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Absolutely beautiful! I'll bet you are SO excited!
How wonderful to have an additional 12' x 12' pantry! I am sooooo envious! I've been wanting to set up a water cachment system for so long, and really want another chicken coop badly.
And a root cellar, and another barn for machinery/equipment, and summer canning kitchen, windmills, solar panels, and, and...
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07/25/08, 08:56 PM
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Living the dream.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Morganton, NC
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Where in NC are you located? We just moved to our 6 acre place in Morganton this spring. Our blog link below has pictures of the place if you would like to take a look.
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07/26/08, 01:35 PM
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Location: North Carolina
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VERY BEATIFUL PLACE !!!!!!
NOTHIN COULD BE FINER THAN TO BE IN CAROLINA !!!!!!
But I will have to say Missouri is are great place too, I grew up there, and I still have some good memories.
bopeep
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